Imperial Army
Active: | 6149 ASC - Present | ||
Motto | Ignis et Victoria | ||
In use by: | Imperial Forces | ||
Allegiance: | Shireroth | ||
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Type: | Land Forces | ||
Size: | 600,000 personnel 12,000 Battle Wagon 3,072 GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch | ||
Nickname: | None yet | ||
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Current Commander: | Magister Primum | ||
Conflicts & Deployments |
The Imperial Army is the principal land warfare force of the Imperial Republic of Shireroth. The force is administered by the Ministry of Military Affairs. The professional head of the Imperial Army is the Magister Primum, who is head of the Collegium Magistri Militum or College of the Magisters (i.e. the General Staff).
Formation and Structure
The structure of the Imperial Army is relatively streamlined into legions and corps divided between three armies. A legion of five regiments will have at least two core regiments that pertain to its mission function as well as any additional squadrons or troops required to perform operationally. A legion on operations will typically be reinforced by additional auxiliaries subject to its particular circumstances and objectives, in which case it therefore becomes the beating heart of a battle group, known as a vexillatio. For comparative purposes a Legion is broadly equivalent to a Brigade level formation in the Elwynnese Union Defence Force, although the UDF typically maintains fewer more overpowered fighting formations than the Imperial Army, in line with its doctrine of making short, sharp and decisive interventions. The doctrine of the Imperial Army on the other hand is typically to hold and stabilise territory after enemy formations have been disrupted thoroughly by the strategic forces of the Imperial Republic.
Legions may be transferred into and out of Corps which are broadly territorial in character. The Armies to which these formations are assigned - Field, Frontier and River - define their general mission, offensive and defensive respectively.
The Palatini Corps remains independent of the three armies and is especially concerned with the defence of the Imperial County and Shirekeep, having evolved out of the Kaiser's old bodyguards - the Order of Kampioens and the Apollonian Guard.
Following the Oustfest Massacre administrative divisions were abolished as an unnecessary bridge in the chain of command between the tactical and operational level formations.
Structure of Units
The most typical variety of Imperial Army units are structured as follows:
Type of Unit | Field Army | Corps | Legion | Cohort/Vexillation/Division | Maniple/Squadron | Watch/Troop/Section | File | Fire Team/Detail |
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Contains | 3 Corps | 8 Legions | 10 Cohorts 6 Vexillations 4 Divisions |
3 Maniples | 3 Watches | 5 Files | 2 Fire Teams | 4 Individuals |
Personnel | 172,800 | 57,600 | 3,600 Infantry 3,600 Specialists |
360 | 120 | 40 | 8 | 4 |
Commanded by | Magister Equitum | Magister Militum | Legatus Imperii | Cohort Tribune | Decurion (Specialists) or Ordinate (Infantry) or Tormentary Ordinate (Artillery) |
Tesserarius | Prime | Chosen Man |
Organisation
Order of Battle
- Imperial Army (Exercitus Imperii)
- Collegium Magistri Militum (General Staff)
- Palatini Corps
- Land Command
- Exercitus Comitatenses (Field Army)
- Exercitus Limitanei (Frontier Army)
- Exercitus Ripenses (Riverine Army)
- Exercitus Arboriae (Army of Arboria)
Tables of Equipment
Palatini Corps
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles | Aircraft/Rotorcraft |
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Scholae Excubitores | . | . | 6,000 Auxiliaries | . | . | . |
Scholae Crypteia | . | . | 6,000 Auxiliaries | . | . | . |
Scholae Palatinae | Legatus Imperii Julius Gerard | . | 6,000 Auxiliaries | . | . | . |
Scholae Kampioenae | . | . | 24,000 Legionnaires 24,000 Auxiliaries |
100 | . | . |
By a minor historical quirk, the Kaiser's personal bodyguard, the Kampioen Guards, was for a time placed under the command of the Imperial Navy. After the re-establishment of the Imperial Army, the Kampioen Guards were re-brigaded into the Old Guard as part of the Palatini Corps of the Imperial Army.
The Kampioens were supplanted in their role by the Order of the Sentinels, which reported to the Kaiser directly and sat entirely outside the structure of the Imperial Forces.
Land Command
The Field Army
The comitatenses comprised the field army of the Imperial Republic, capable of dispatch to conduct fully mobile, mechanised and expeditionary warfare, in contrast to the primarily defensive frontier troops.
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Compagnia Familia del Merrick | Magister Equitum Royston Merrick the Younger (on secondment to the ESB-Jörmungandr Group). | . | . | . | . |
Retinue of the Magister Militum | Magister Militum Fereydoun Payam Attar | . | . | . | . |
LIV Legio | Legatus Imperii Alexander Beresford | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LV Legio | Legatus Imperii Donnchard | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LVI Legio | Legatus Imperii Seaghdha Sarsfield | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LVII Legio | Legatus Imperii Charles Livingston | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LVIII Legio | Legatus Imperii Evander Cameron | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LIX Legio | Legatus Imperii Teófilo O'Higgins | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LX Legio | Legatus Imperii Manuel Soublette | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LXI Legio | Legatus Imperill Porfirio Uribe | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Magister Militum | Magister Militum Abolfazl Shahzad Khoroushi | . | . | . | . |
LXII Legio | Legatus Imperii Tadeo Roa | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LXIII Legio | Legatus Imperii Ernst Johan Stackelberg | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LXIV Legio | Legatus Imperii Karl Jacob Stackelberg | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LXV Legio | Legatus Imperii Klaus Meyer | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LXVI Legio | Legatus Imperii Adolf Tegethoff | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LXVII Legio | Legatus Imperii Tobias Bremer | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LXVIII Legio | Legatus Imperii Peter von Hagenbach | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LXIX Legio | Legatus Imperii Gregor Colvin | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Magister Militum | Magister Militum Behnam Kambiz Rostami | . | . | . | . |
LXX Legio | Legatus Imperii Joachim Ursus | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LXXI Legio | Legatus Imperii Riccardo Huerlingdorp | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LXXII Legio | Legatus Imperii Antonio de Nebrija | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LXXIII Legio | Legatus Imperii Rostam Hafiz | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LXXIV Legio | Legatus Imperii Piarres Nafarroakoa | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LXXV Legio | Legatus Imperii Gustavus Peralta | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LXXVI Legio | Legatus Imperii Constantine Plantagenet | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
LXXVII Legio | Legatus Imperii Heinrich Starkey | 57,121 | 6,000 | 979 | 414 |
The Frontier Army
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Magister Equitum | Magister Equitum Hugh O'Neill | . | . | . | . |
Retinue of the Magister Militum | Magister Militum Yasin Bahadur Khoroushi | . | . | . | . |
XIV Legio | Legatus Imperii Sigihard Brune | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXI Legio | Legatus Imperii Fridwald Fried | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXII Legio | Legatus Imperii Theodoard Friduman Baumer | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXIII Legio | Legatus Imperii Bruno Rambert Strohkirch | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXIV Legio | Legatus Imperii Gebhard Heike Yount | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXVII Legio | Legatus Imperii Herbert Alle Beckert | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXVIII Legio | Legatus Imperii Reto Sigiheri Schumacher | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXIX Legio | Legatus Imperii Ime Leudoberct Aikema | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Magister Militum | Magister Militum Hassan Soroush Khoroushi | . | . | . | . |
I Legio Bersaglieri | Legatus Imperii Ewald Ermenrich Ionesco | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
II Legio Littorio | Legatus Imperii Waldomar Hermanus Dumitru | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
III Legio San Marco | Legatus Imperii Meino Ionuț Vasile | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
IV Legio Monterosa | Legatus Imperii Baugulf Seneca Șerban | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
V Legio | Legatus Imperii Teodor Doru Vasile | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XII Legio Scholae Evocati | Legatus Imperii Quintus Tacitus Cojocaru | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XIII Legio | Legatus Imperii Iancu Hortensius | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XX Legio | Legatus Imperii Kian Charmchi | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Magister Militum | Magister Militum Akbar Jalal Alinejad | . | . | . | . |
XXX Legio | Brevet Dux Godascalc Berahthram Vasilescu | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXXI Legio | Legatus Imperii Ștefan Tudor Adam | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXXII Legio | Legatus Imperii Ansovald Aldebrand Popescu | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXXIII Legio | Legatus Imperii Vespasianus Pompeius | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXXIV Legio | Legatus Imperii Darius Hludowig Șerban | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXXV Legio | Legatus Imperii Bahman Eskandar Alinejad | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXXVI Legio | Legatus Imperii Ahmad Jahangir Alinejad | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
XXXVII Legio | Legatus Imperii Jalal Masood Alinejad | 33,589 | 6,000 | 798 | 400 |
The Riverine Army
Responsible for the defence of the River Elwynn and the approaches to Shirekeep. Lost its landing craft to the Corps of Auxiliaries in 1647, placing its future in doubt. As of 1651 it exists, on paper, as the garrison of the Imperial Duchy of Brookshire.
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Magister Equitum | . | . | . | . | . |
Retinue of the Praefectus Classis | . | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
VI Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
VII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
VIII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
IX Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
X Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XI Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Praefectus Classis | . | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
XXXVIII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XXXIX Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XL Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLI Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLIII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLIV Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLV Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
Unit Name | Commandant | Anunia Points | Personnel | AFV/Artillery | Support Vehicles |
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Retinue of the Praefectus Classis | . | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 |
XLVI Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLVII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLVIII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
XLIX Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
L Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
LI Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
LII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
LIII Legio | . | . | . | . | . |
Command Ranks: Non-commissioned and Junior Officer ranks as Imperial Army standard > Trierarchus/Trierarchi (pl.) (Captain: commander of 1 ship) > Nauarchus (Colonel of Ships: commander of 10 ships/a squadron) > Nauarchus Princeps (Brigadier of Ships: commander of two or more squadrons) > Praefectus Classis (Fleet Prefect: commander of a fleet) > Corps command ranks as Imperial Army standard
The Army of Arboria
Established as the Reserve Army in Goldshire in 1644 to provide the Imperial Army with a pool of manpower and formations to replace units worn down through attrition in combat. Deployed to Natopian Arboria in 1647/1648 in the aftermath of the War of Jingdaoese Immolation and renamed as the Army of Arboria in mid 1648.
Recruitment and Training
The Imperial Army recruits exclusively from Shirekeep and the Imperial Dominions as well as any territory that they might temporarily occupy, such as Goldshire during the period of martial law.
Recruitment can include the taking in of volunteers, but also frequently relies upon forms of impressment, notably the Press-Gang. This Press-Gang, also known as the Impressment Service operated on a large scale with a force of men in likely river ports and towns in the Imperial County and Mishalan. These men were armed and possessed "warrants" from the MoMA for their operations. Their "catches" were conveyed to Receiving Ships in the midstream of the Blue and White branches of the Elwynn which then, when their cargo holds are full, take their "haul" downriver and out to sea - eventually depositing them on the island of Zy-Rodun for personality adjustment, indoctrination and basic training.
Once recruits have been returned to their units, training for operations will normally take the form of waging war against local dissidents, separatists and communities that have neglected to pay their takes or make a timely submission to the Golden Mango Throne. For those legions garrisoned in the territories of the Imperial States, where attacking the local population is not an option, short term regimental deployments to Lichbrook, Voltrue and the former Empire of Minarboria will provide the opportunity for combined-arms practice against recalcitrant minority groups.
Equipment
Uniforms
Issued to each serving member of the Imperial Army, adjusted according to rank:
4 x M1644 IA Field Uniform Tunics (Green)
2 x M1644 IA Field Uniform Trousers (Grey)
1 x Belt, brown leather
1 x M1644 IA Jackboots (Blacked Leather)
2 x T-shirt, olive drab
1 x M1639 Stahlhelm
1 x M1644 forage cap
1 x M1645 grey gas mask with filter & hose
1 x Hood, grid fleece
1 x Protective goggles, with dark lenses and cotton band
1 x Wool scarf, olive drab
2 x General purpose gloves with leather palm
4 x Woolen socks (Grey)
4 x Sports boxers (Black)
Kit
Issued to each serving member of the the Imperial Army:
1 x Rifle rucksack, olive drab
1 x Rucksack, large
1 x Bread bag
1 x Laundry bag
1 x Waterproof lining bag
1 x M1645 gas mask carry case
1 x Soup tin, aluminum, 2.5 litres.
1 x Mess tin, 460 grams.
1 x Enameled steelware coffee pot, 2 litres.
1 x Enameled steelware mug, 500 ml.
1 x Field cutlery set.
1 x First aid kit
1 x Shoe care set
1 x Sewing kit
1 x Tent accessory set
1 x Wool blanket
1 x Poncho
1 x Shelter half
Weaponry
Issued to Milites assigned to an Infantry Section or contubernium:
1 x M1610 Rifle (Semi-Automatic)
1 x M1645 combat knife
1 x Survival machete
1 x Hatchet
1 x Claw hammer
5 x M14 Fragmentation Hand Grenade
5 x M15 White Phosphorus Anti-Lich Grenade
5 x M16 Mustard Gas Anti-Singer Grenade
5 x M18 Red Smoke Hand Grenade
5 x 100 Rounds, 7.9x55mm Gotz
History
The Imperial Army campaigned in the Civil War in Goldshire where its poor performance against an ill-equipped and fractious alliance of rebels prompted a review of its organisation and structure. In 1644 the Kaiser Dominus decreed an increase in the allocation of manpower to the Imperial Army, increasing its size from 275,000 personnel across 347 regiments to 600,000 personnel in 500 regiments. The same decree mandated for the first time the establishment of 100 Imperial Legions, as the brigade strength fighting formations of the Imperial Army.
The highly variable performance of the Imperial Army (woeful in the Civil War in Goldshire, superb during the Auspicious Occasion, merely adequate throughout the Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation) had increased the impetus for a more thorough reorganisation of the Imperial Army so as to impart greater tactical flexibility. The result of which was the Octavian Reforms of 1652 AN which rebuilt the legions around drastically scaled down and simplified Infantry regiments, know known as cohorts, supported by independent vexillations or unit detachments of specialists integrated at the Corps level and assigned to legions according to operational necessity. The reforms were first trialled in the Frontier Army as it deployed to stabilise the west following the Auspicious Occasion.